“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson answering the… Read the rest “And now, a word from Neil deGrasse Tyson…”
Wired says we should think about staying indoors for a while, because the probe Russia sent to collect samples from the Martian moon isn’t going to make it that far. It’s expected… Read the rest “Russian Mars probe crashing back to Earth.”
That’s the idea behind a study by University of Oxford and the University of Auckland researchers in PhysOrg. The scientists found that our ability to live in lots of different social… Read the rest “Humans: The *sociable* ape?”
National Geographic reports that an entire genus of African antelopes – represented by the hirola, last species in genus Beatragus – is about to follow the dodo and the marsupial… Read the rest “Antelope genus about to disappear.”
Scientific American interviews Brian David Johnson, Intel’s “future caster,” who combines science fiction with software and hardware design to predict what’s… Read the rest “The professional prophet of Intel.”
Discovery is looking up to a way to get satellites into orbit using balloons instead of rockets:
… Read the rest “Riding airships into orbit.”…[T]he now-retired NASA space shuttle was the Hindenburg of the space age. Like the
Science explores why the noise of nails on a chalkboard is so awful:
… Read the rest “Noise hurts. Why?”As they will report next week at the Acoustical Society of America conference in San Diego, California, [Michael Oehler
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Pierre Belon was a naturalist in the Renaissance. He graduated from medical school, then apprenticed himself to a botanist and wandered from France to Palestine, drawing… Read the rest “Science Art: Octopos vulgo Graeco, by Pierre Belon (Petri Bellonii Cenomani), in De aquatilibus, 1553”
Or, BBC says, at least the symptoms of aging, like wrinkles and cataracts. Mayo Clinic researchers may have found a fountain of youth:
… Read the rest “Mayo Clinic stops aging.”The study, published in Nature, focused on what are
The Telegraph finds the truth behind a navigational legend – a stone that Vikings used locate the sun on cloudy days:
… Read the rest “How Vikings found the sun.”Now experiments have shown that a crystal, called an Iceland spar,
BBC reports on three ways scientists are bringing tractor beams into reality:
… Read the rest “Turning on the first tractor beams.”The $100,000 (£63,000) award will be used to examine three laser-based approaches to do what has until now
The Future Perfect blog chases down what it might mean once we use our faces online:
… Read the rest “Who owns your face? (biometrics, meet property rights)”One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that I coming back to is near-time facial recognition in
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